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Think St. Johnstone will be sitting in the dressing room right now kicking themselves. Was a game they should have won comfortably but they were happy to stay in a low gear at 1-0. First half we were dire and they team were deservedly booed off. Second half wasn't much better until around the 60 minute mark when it became apparent St. Johnstone had downed tools and we got a bit of encouragement from the substitutions and slackness from the visitors. To be fair to the team it was mediocre from back to front but we actually battled for 20 minutes or so and we got some reward off of it. Sutton took the goal really well after good build up from Dom Thomas, who looks different class in terms of attitude and ability. If only we had showed that attitude from the beginning of matches we might be further up the league. All things considered a good point considering the side we had out today, going 1-0 down early and then losing a man in the first 25 minutes. As for the red card, I literally turned my head to speak to someone just when it happened so I can't comment on the sending off but according to the wean it was a red card, although most of the East Stand seemed to disagree!

To be fair to Barraclough he didn't have many options for central midfield today - no Lawson, Vigurs, Lasley, Pearson, Leitch, Ojamaa. Long ball might be our best bet today, get Sutton and Erwin up there.

Could line up a lot of different ways but I'll go with this Twardzik Reid - Laing, O'Brien - Watt Law - Ramsden, Carswell - Straker Erwin, Sutton

Mine is Martyn Corrigan decking Derek Adams in the dressing room.

Without Pearson we are basically fucked. No Lawson, Vigurs, Lasley, Pearson or Ojamaa in midfield? This Straker boy better have shoulders like Atlas to carry the rest of them!

The difference in tactics could be knight and day.

Don't we have enough to worry about with a question like this being put out there!

Baraclough strongly suggesting that there will be more coming in, in the press conference.

Laing said he plays right centre back and that's where O'Brien has been playing. Will be interesting to see how we line up tomorrow.

Last time I looked it was to stay cold but no more snow.

I'm of the opinion that our situation is not Baraclough's fault, he inherited it and I think we should support him but we have lost 5 matches on the trot and have looked as bad, if not worse, than ever, so what if this current run continues and becomes, say, 10 losses on the trot and yet somehow we still have a chance of escaping relegation? At that point do you back or ditch Baraclough? Like I said I'm in favour of supporting Baraclough but that could change pretty quickly depending on results and performances. What we need to do is to start picking up points soon because at the end of the day our loyalty should always be to the club and not to a manager and 10 defeats on the trot swould surely see any manager fired. Our current run is putting Baraclough in a dangerous position, 5 losses in a row at present, and I think it's kind of an interesting (but hopefully hypothetical) question, when do people turn? 6 defeats in a row? 7 defeats? 8 defeats? 9 defeats? Do we stick with him no matter what? Those sort of numbers are just a few games away now. Hopefully we get something against St. Johnstone.

Seems pretty obvious he had no future at Legia and needed to move on. We made an offer (as I understand) but another club made a better one and he's gone for the better Scandinavian offer and a new challenge.

As I said on P&B I'd bite your hand off for a point from this game. Will the game be on though? If not it will be another 3 weeks before a home match is played and as shite as this season has been waiting 7 weeks for a home match is a bit off.

If that's the case one will drop out the team by the end of the season and be away and the other won't get a regular first team place until 2017.

Most wide players have good and bad days especially wide players at our level. You just need to hope we get someone who clicks with the team and we get more good days out of him than bad days. Like Ainsworth last season. But I think it will be a huge boost just to get a couple of new faces in the dressing room. You'd like to think it will have a positive effect on everyone.

Says on Wiki that's he's primarily a left winger. A left winger! Good God!

Too be honest I'm not too bothered about Ojamaa leaving as long as we bring someone else in who is half way decent. We need someone to come in and score 6 goals at least in the second half of the season and rescue us like Willie Falconer did all those years ago. I don't think it really worked out for Henrik this time, he wasn't contributing assists and wasn't scoring enough to justify taking up a forward role. Judging by his body language I don't think he was too happy playing under Baraclough either and to me he didn't really look that interested in the last three or four matches. I think when Henrik looks back on his career I have a sneaking suspicion that the best football he played will have been with us in his first spell.

He's what you get if you cross Steven Caldwell with Stuart Carswell.

Yeah, Fraser should have been in. Fraser had the squad no. 1 in 2009/10 and Hammell was no. 3 and Hammell was the first on my list, think I just over looked him. Pretty sure I didn't miss anyone else out.

He missed out by 5 days.

Just put one name in and then it gives you as "Give In" option. Something like that anyway. The answers come up then.

Only a league cup appearance at Clyde. Scored as well.

I got 58 out of 69 but I did type all the names in about 15 minutes before so I had a slight advantage. Even so I missed out a regular starter from this season...

I put together a wee Motherwell FC player quiz, if anyone is looking for a wee time waster. Since we are half way through a decade the question is this - Can you name every Motherwell FC player who has made a league appearance since 1st January 2010? There are 69 (according to my sources) and I bet you can't. You have 15 minutes to come up with as many as you can remember and some of them are not very memorable! Click on the link below and hopefully it works. http://www.sporcle.com/games/ya_bezzer/motherwell-players-since-2010

I don't think you can judge a manager on the January transfer window. Most players are under contract or have been out the game for 6 months and who know what kind of budget is available at this time of year when clubs are in limbo between season ticket money running out and league money being paid out towards the end of the season. Also remember players we are interested in might not necessarily be jumping for joy at the the chance to join a demoralized dressing room and team that gets absolutely humped every weekend. I'm guessing, all things considered, that the last January transfer window would have been a lot easier to attract a good standard of player, if available, that this one. This season is Stuart McCall's mess and the contracted players mess, not Baraclough's. It's as if someone threw an anvil out the window and people are blaming Baraclough if he doesn't catch it before it hits the ground.